"You whining about the OFF or economic relationships between France and Iraq is ridicolous. "
Actually I am complaining about German whores too. When your country is caught red handed supporting evil and selling its vote, you may well have to resort to ad hominem attacks on my "whining" :
http://www.heritage.org/Research/MiddleEast/wm217.cfm
Heritage is one of the premier Conservative think tanks in the US.
I quote from your link that refers to the late Iraq of Saddam:
Direct trade between Germany and Iraq amounts to about $350 million annually, and another $1 billion is reportedly sold through third parties.[10]
Very funny.
Germay, a small but economically influentical nation, has a GDP of $2.585 trillion. Do you really think that $350 million or even $1 billion trade volume is anything substancial to us? This is just a proof that we practically sold nothing to Saddam Hussein anymore, since a restricted socket trade through OFF was perfectly legal. If you ask other nations in that area about their trade volume with Germany you get other numbers.